Yahya Saade

Yahya Saade (1 January 1956-15 July 2004) was a Major-General of the Iraqi Popular Army of Ba'athist Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

Biography
Yahya Saade was born on 1 January 1956 in Ramadi, Kingdom of Iraq to a Sunni Muslim family. Saade rose in the ranks of the Iraqi Popular Army under Saddam Hussein, and Saade became a Major-General after seeing action in the Iran-Iraq War and Gulf War with the Special Republican Guard. Saade evaded capture in the Iraq War in 2003 and led Ba'ath Party insurgents against the United States and other MNF-I occupying forces. He was killed in action in a counter-insurgency operation on 15 July 2004 in Ramadi by the US Marine Corps.